Anthony Tiffith Buys $11 Million Beverly Hills Mansion – Variety

Anthony Tiffith Buys $11 Million Beverly Hills Mansion – Variety

Hip-hop music mogul Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith has come a long way since his days of robbing KFC franchises in the 1980s. The former gangster, born and reared in the gritty L.A. neighborhood of Watts, now reigns as one of the wealthiest producers in the music industry, presiding over one of the fastest-growing independent labels in the business.

Despite his accolades, Tiffith remains a somewhat enigmatic figure in Hollywood and even the music biz itself, mostly because he rarely grants interviews or speaks to the press. Still, he’s noted for his generosity — last month, the music impresario paid rent for over 300 families in his hometown of Watts.

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Now based in Calabasas, Tiffith recently expanded his real estate horizons with the $11 million, all-cash purchase of an architecturally exuberant contemporary mansion high in the mountains above Beverly Hills. Tucked into a gated community, the all-new house sports more than 13,000 square feet of living space and sits atop a perilously steep knoll, lording over more modest homes on the hillside below.

Built by controversial Russian jeweler Igor Mavlyanov and designed by architect Jay Vanos, the white-and-grey manor is secured behind its own set of gates and cameras, in addition to those of the gated community. Though most of the yard is hardscaped with concrete, a handful of planters and a tranquil fountain keep the place from feeling inherently cold.

Inside, the public rooms are all massive in scale, somehow glitzily minimal and mostly adhere to a strict palette of all-white everything, making the place feel akin to a modernized “Miami Vice” set. There’s a soaring marble fireplace in the living room, a custom kitchen with designer appliances and Bulthaup cabinetry, a walk-in wine closet with tasting area, and an alfresco dining terrace with soaring views out over Coldwater Canyon.

Naturally, the three-level mansion is equipped with an elevator that ferries the homeowners — or a tired housekeeper — down to the basement level, which is tricked out with a built-in golf simulator and plenty of space for grand-scale entertaining, plus a movie theater with room for a couple dozen of Tiffith’s closest friends. For the car collector, the house is outfitted with a garage spanning more than 2,100 square feet, or bigger than the average American house.

Other lavish amenities include a full spa/wellness center with sauna, Turkish hammam and massage room. Upstairs, the Ferrugio & Associates-designed master suite flaunts jetliner views to Century City, the Pacific Ocean and the San Fernando Valley. Glass sliders and clerestory windows bathe the space in natural light, and at night the twinkling city lights below give the impression that the homeowner is floating above the fray, hovering on his magic carpet of a bed.

Because the house takes up most of the property’s hillside lot, there are no formal gardens or mature trees in the backyard. There is, however, an unconventionally-shaped infinity pool with inset spa, both of them with the same amazing views over the L.A. basin. Perhaps the property’s most notable feature, however, is its open-air rooftop deck with convenient outdoor bar.

And besides his new 90210 estate, Tiffith’s $30 million real estate portfolio includes a $2.8 million house in the L.A. neighborhood of Encino, a condo in Paramount, Calif., a condo in Inglewood, a separate apartment complex in Inglewood, and a $3.4 million home in Calabasas’ exclusive Estates at the Oaks gated community, purchased from Toni Braxton in 2016.

Tiffith’s main residence, however, is a $6.7 million Calabasas mansion, also tucked away within the Estates at the Oaks, acquired in 2014 from Mexican radio host Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo.

Why Nicole Avant Made Doc About Her Father – Variety

When Nicole Avant was growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1970s and ’80s, her father, Clarence Avant, was one of the most connected and successful African American power brokers in the music industry. He launched record labels, owned radio stations and became a key figure in politics and the civil rights movement.

The Avant home was always buzzing with a stream of Hollywood and Washington insiders coming and going. “I knew that he was very powerful because the phone rang constantly and I always heard him fixing something or giving advice,” says Nicole, who made her producing debut with Netflix’s “The Black Godfather,” a documentary about her father. “And then I did see him on ‘Soul Train’ one day, and he was giving an interview with Don Cornelius. …That’s when I thought, ‘Oh, he must be a big deal because he’s on television.’”

That point is driven home by the documentary, which features interviews with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, David Geffen, Jamie Foxx, Sean “Diddy” Combs and the late Bill Withers, whom Avant signed to his Sussex Records while the singer was still working as an aircraft assembler.

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Nicole Avant, who is married to Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, says she had plans to shop the doc around before her husband snapped it up for the streamer. “I actually had this idea in my head since I was a little girl. I really did,” Avant, who served as Obama’s ambassador to the Bahamas, says on this week’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I had told Ted, even when I was dating him, there’s this idea I have for this film, and I said to him, ‘I’m going to take it to HBO.’ Once I started getting the interviews and everyone started confirming, Ted said, ‘Do you really have all these people saying yes?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, for sure.’ He said, ‘Let me take a look at it again.’ And then at that point, Ted is a part of the family, and he saw a solid film, and he saw an important film, and he actually wanted to tell the story just as much or even more than I did.”

What do you want people to know about your dad?

I really wanted people to take away that it’s important to have a strong sense of self. It’s important to keep moving forward. It’s important to pay back. It’s important to move the needle. Also, it’s very important to take risks in life. Sometimes you’re going to fail. Sometimes people are going to say no. So what? It’s a part of life. You keep going. You pick yourself back up again.

What did you learn about your dad while making the documentary that you didn’t know already?

I took it for granted how hard his childhood was and how abusive it was — having a stepfather, really beating up my grandmother in front of him and in front of the other children. My dad didn’t really have a childhood, and he took care of seven kids because everyone was working and they were so poor.

How hard was it to hear those stories?

Very hard for me. And it made a lot of sense when everything did fall down for him and everything blew up at one time and we lost everything. I think everything triggered to his childhood again of not having things he didn’t have or anybody to really rely on.

Tell me about a time in which someone really big turned up at the house and you were like, ‘What is this person doing here?’”

The one time I was very star-struck was when Whitney Houston showed up one day and I had just been listening to the “Greatest Love of All.” I’d sing it in the car like I was Whitney Houston. I was floored; I stood at the front door and I thought, “Oh, my God, this is a real celebrity. This is a big deal.”

If you were to make a scripted narrative about your dad, who would play him?

Forest Whitaker could play him because he knows him and he could “get” him actually.

This interview has been edited and condensed. Hear it in its entirety below. You can also listen to “The Big Ticket” at iHeartRadio or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

Speaking to representatives of the PEEK Project, a Glasgow-based charity, on May 20, the Duke of Cambridge said the success of his family meal depend very much on “what’s on the table”. Joking with community chef Charlie Farrally, Prince William agreed that dinner time can be very challenging: “If parents put something on that children love, dinner time goes very well,” he said. “But if you put something on the table they don’t want to do, that’s another ball game.”

PEEK Project, Possibilities for Each and Every Kid, have been working throughout COVID-19 to provide balanced, and hot meals for families in need. The Duke of Cambridge praised them for their work and pointed out the immense pressure that parents are under as well.

The PEEK project has been supported in it’s work throughout the pandemic by the National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal. Were it not for lockdown, the Duke of Cambridge would have been in Scotland this week to meet representatives at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Obviously, this couldn’t go ahead face-to-face, but he still spoke to the chefs, volunteers, and the CEO via a video call. “I hope when I find myself up in Glasgow in the near future I can come and see you guys in person and congratulate you,” he added.

Esai Morales, known for his work in Ozark and How to Get Away with Murder, is joining the cast of Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8, director Christopher McQuarrie revealed on his Instagram on Thursday (May 21).

However, Deadline is now reporting that Esai, 57, is actually replacing Nicholas Hoult in the movie in the villain role for the films.

The reason why Nicholas is being replaced? The Coronavirus pandemic has delayed production of tons of movies and television shows across the globe. As a result, the “delay put Hoult in conflict with another commitment.”

The film currently has a release date of July 23, 2021, but that could change as many films have had to alter release dates due to the global health crisis.